Relationships are complicated and you can grow by being in a damaging relationship, as well as a healthy one. But, basically it's that there's not always a clear line between the predator and the victim. I can't really quote it, because this is an ARC. Bick really sums up her (and my) feelings in the acknowledgments at the end of the book.
It's confusing - and we wonder, just like Jenna, what to believe. There are also a few surprises along the way.īy the time I got to the climactic ending of this book, I didn't know what to think. Every piece added something to my understanding of the situation or characters. There is a slow progression, but it's very steady, and at no time did I feel the exposition was dragging. These characters, especially our narrator, become our friends. She finds some comfort, and possibly some healing, by spending time with Mr. Suffice it to say, Jenna has problems, and as she very slowly reveals the extent of these problems through her narrative, your heart breaks. Anderson, her chemistry teacher and track coach. Her father decides to take Jenna out of therapy and move her to a new, private high school. She misses her brother, who used to be the only person she could talk to, but he is away. She was critically injured in the fire that burned down her grandfather's house.
She's had a dysfunctional childhood with a mother who is a drunk and a domineering father. The rest of the story is Jenna's description of her life. He obviously wants information that Jenna has, so he leaves her a digital recording device, so she can feel free to talk. The first scene in the book is Jenna, our 16-year-old main character, in a hospital emergency room talking to a detective named Bob. I was really moved by Drowning Instinct. It's a really unpleasant story, but well-written, with characters who have problems for which there are no easy answers.
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